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The Major League Baseball winter meetings next week in Orlando, Florida, are shaping up to be eventful, with plenty of action already stirring.
That’s a change from 2023 and 2024, when Shohei Ohtani’s and Juan Soto’s market-setting free agencies put some of the heavyweight teams in a holding pattern leading up to the meetings.
Still, the 2024 meetings were productive for the Cubs after they already had signed left-hander Matthew Boyd in the days leading up to them. They laid the groundwork to acquire outfielder Kyle Tucker from the Astros and to sign catcher Carson Kelly, although the moves were finalized after the teams departed Dallas.